Hope! - Das Obama Musical

HE HAS inspired everything from souvenir T-shirts to commemorative dolls. Now a collaboration of German and US stage professionals is paying one of the most extravagant tributes yet to US President Barack Obama, with a musical that charts his meteoric journey from community worker to the White House.

Hope! - Das Obama Musical, which premiered in Frankfurt on Sunday, is believed to be the first stage production to dramatise the life of a sitting US president...